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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An advertisement.

n. An advantage in tennis.

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n. Short form of advertisement.

n. advantage

prep. to, toward

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

A prefix of Latin origin, with primary sense “to,” and hence also “toward, upon, for,” etc., expressing in Latin, and so in English, etc., motion or direction to, reduction or change into, addition, adherence, intensification, etc., in English often without perceptible force. According to the following consonant, it is variously assimilated ab-, ac-, af-, etc., or reduced to a-. See etymology.

A prefix of various other origin, erroneously put for other prefixes, as in advance, etc. See etymology.

A suffix of Greek origin appended to nouns.

A suffix in ballad and salad (formerly balade and salade), usually represented by -ade. See -ade.

In anatomy, a suffix denoting relation, situation, or direction, having the same force as the English suffix -ward, or the word toward.